Re: 2.5.44-mm2 CONFIG_SHAREPTE necessary for starting KDE 3.0.3

[Steven Cole <scole@lanl.gov>]

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 11:01, Steven Cole wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> My experience with 2.5.44-mm2 and KDE 3 runs counter to the experience
> of some others.  I've booted several kernels this morning on my UP test
> box and found that starting KDE 3.0.3 using XFree86 4.2.1 _requires_
> that CONFIG_SHAREPTE=y for my system.  All kernels were UP and PREEMPT.
> With CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y and nmi_watchdog=1, the results were the
> same.
> 
> If SHAREPTE is not set, then the KDE startup fails with a frozen pointer
> after the initial dark blue screen changes to black.  This does appear
> to be KDE-related.  When Gnome is my default desktop, that works just
> fine with 2.5.44-mm2 and CONFIG_SHAREPTE not set.
> 

After reading my own mail, I realized that I should have checked to see
if disabling PREEMPT did any good in this case. 

I just booted 2.5.44-mm2 without PREEMPT and without SHAREPTE, and KDE
3.0.3 was able to start up OK.

Steven  

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